General Information

Thank your for your interest in Digital Humanities focussed Data Carpentry workshop.

Researchers, students, and librarians are increasingly starting to engage in projects with more complex computing components to harness the power of larger and often open datasets and technology. Those who are interested in pursuing Digital Humanities projects often find themselves in unknown territory without a clear idea of a good starting point for acquiring new skills or finding potential collaborators. One of the aims of the South African Center for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) as well as the Digital Humanities Organisation of Southern Africa (DHASA) is to build local communities to both facilitate collaboration and skills transfer.

Workshop Aims

This workshop aims to provide a broad introduction to the following concepts and tools

• Introduction to Digital Humanities
• Introducing existing training opportunities and available resources
• Research Data Management
• Data formatting, cleaning, and manipulation
• The use of existing data repositories to augment research
• Introduction to R for analysing data
• Community building

The workshop is jointly funded by the South African Center for Digital Language Resources as well as the NWU-Digital Humanities and aims to create awareness about Digital Humanities

The workshop is organised by the Digital Humanities Organisation of Southern African in collaboration with NWU-Digital Humanities and we-Deliver

Registration and other information

Please register for the workshop through this online form: https://goo.gl/SMjRcd by 27 July 2017 . Space is limited, if you have any questions please contact Juan.Steyn@nwu.ac.za.

Data Carpentry workshops are for any graduate student or researcher who has data they want to analyze, and no prior computational experience is required. This hands-on workshop teaches basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data.

We will cover , Digital Humanities - How does it apply to me?, Organising and cleaning my research data and Introduction to in R. Participants should bring their laptops and plan to participate actively. By the end of the workshop learners should be able to more effectively manage and analyze data and be able to apply the tools and approaches directly to their ongoing research.

Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers.

Where: Building F13, 214, Potchefstroom Campus, 11 Hoffman Street, Potchefstroom, South Africa. Get directions with Google Maps.

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating sytem (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below). They are also required to abide by Data Carpentry's Code of Conduct.

Contact: Please mail juan.steyn@nwu.ac.za for more information and if you have any trouble registering for the workshop.

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Preliminary Schedule

Surveys

Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.

Pre-workshop Survey

Post-workshop Survey

Meals:

Lunch will be catered for.

Tea/Coffee will be provided according to schedule.

Etherpad: http://pad.software-carpentry.org/2017-08-01-potch.
We will use this Etherpad for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.

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Detail Programme

Syllabus

Research Data Management and Workflows

• Changing Research Landscape
• FAIR - Data Principles
• 101 - innovations
• My own workflow

Using spreadsheet programs for scientific data

• Formatting data & problems
• Dates as data
• Quality control
• Exporting data
• Data format caveats
• Cleaning data with OpenRefine